X-From_: answer at action-mail.org Fri Nov 15 14:47:24 2002 From: "A.N.S.W.E.R." <answer at action-mail.org> Subject: ENDORSE the Jan. 18-19 Mass Actions in DC To: info at internationalanswer.org Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:45:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0
NO WAR IN IRAQ
Tens of thousands will converge in Washington DC January 18-19, 2003 for a MASS DEMONSTRATION and the Convening of the GRASSROOTS PEACE CONGRESS
THE INITIAL LIST OF ENDORSERS & INITIATORS OF THE JANUARY 18-19 ACTIONS INCLUDES: - A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general - New York City Labor Against the War - Dr. Hans Christof von Sponeck, former director of the UN Oil for Food Program - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National Pastor, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church - Rev. John Dear - Patti Smith - National Lawyers Guild - Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME; Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War - IFCO/Pastors for Peace - Free Palestine Alliance - Partnership for Civil Justice - LDEF - Nicaragua Network - Muslim Student Association of the US/Canada - Korea Truth Commission - International Action Center - Kensington Welfare Rights Union - Middle East Children's Alliance - Bayan USA-International - Mexico Solidarity Network - Howard Zinn, Peoples' Historian - Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War - Michael Tarif Warren, attorney - Chuck Turner, City Councilor, Boston, MA - Ron Kovic, author (including "Born on the 4th of July") - Cleveland Peace Action - Committee in Support of the Iraqi People - Strategic Pastoral Action Network (SPAN) - Green Party USA - SALAAM -- South Asian League of Artists in America - Texas A&M University Campus Greens - Coalition for Peace and Justice, Charlotte, NC - Students Taking Opposition Peacefully - Sag Harbor Coalition Against the War - High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice - College Voice, College of Staten Island -- City University of New York (CSI/CUNY) - Terre Haute Stop War on Iraq - Student Voices for Peace, New Mexico State University - Alaska Action Center - Brown County Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Yullah.com -- National Arab American Event Directory - Southwest Washington Institute for Peace and Social Justice - Central Vermont Coalition for PEACE - Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti-Imperialist - Citizens for a Peaceful Response (CPR) Detroit - Student Coalition for Peace and Equality, University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social - Work - St. Stephen Catholic Student Center, University of Northern Iowa - Metro DC Committee of Correspondence - Women in Black - Salem, Oregon - Women in Black - Gulfcoast, Florida - The Engaged Zen Foundation - Proposition One Committee - The March For Justice - Austin Democracy Coalition - Turnwind - Nukewatch - Campaign Against War - Council of Peace - South America - We Won't Shop Campaign - Horizons Project - NJ Independent Alliance - LaBOR aRT & MuRAL PRoJECT - A First Amendment Center - Sexual Minorities Archives - New Zealand Peace Council - The Citizen Mobilization for Peace & Social Justice - Institute for Poverty Awareness and Education, Inc - The United Peoples, Denmark - Tasmania Coalition for Peace - Palm Beach Treasure Coast Green Party - The Justice Xpress - Anarchist Action of Rochester - Center New Realities, Switzerland - Catholic Worker Kommunity Radio - Northland College Peace Club - Dakota_Lakota_Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition - Indian Association of Lawyers - Social Action Council - First Unitarian Church, Dallas, TX - People's Coalition Against War & many more!
For the initial list of endorsers and initiators, go to: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/endorsers.html
To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out the easy-to-use form at: http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo (if this link does not take you directly to the form, please scroll down)
WHY YOU SHOULD BE IN DC JAN. 18-19:
When Congress rejects the will of the people, the people must act themselves. Congress has rubber-stamped Bush's criminal war that seeks to conquer the oil, land and resources of the Middle East. Bush and Congress have shown that they represent the interests of Corporate America rather than the people of the United States.
A people's movement is growing to stop them. On January 18 and 19 tens of thousands of people will participate in mass protest activities on the Martin Luther King Jr. anniversary weekend.
Dr. King publicly condemned the U.S. war in Vietnam, providing a powerful connection between the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church in 1967, he stated, "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government. . . [F]or the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
Dr. King believed that it was impossible to successfully wage a war on poverty at home while waging a war of aggression in Vietnam. The same can be said today about George W. Bush's global war drive. Social programs and services are being looted as Bush and Congress provide record-breaking sums for weapons of mass destruction and war. Bush has signed into law Congress's new defense budget that transfers a billion dollars a day from the people into the hands of the military-industrial complex.
The thousands who are coming to Washington, D.C., honor Dr. King and his legacy by opposing a criminal war in Iraq -- this time not in Vietnam, but in the Middle East -- and by demanding instead that these hundreds of billions of dollars earmarked for war instead be spent on jobs, education, housing, health care and to meet human needs.
The grassroots Peace Congress will be comprised of delegations from all communities who are coming together in the streets and in a People's Congress to forge the opposition necessary to stop the Bush Administration's war drive: labor, students and youth, fighters for civil rights and women's rights, the LGBT community and people of faith.
Join with others around the country by bringing a diverse delegation from your community to participate in the January 18 mass march and the January 19th People's Congress.
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To ENDORSE the January 18-19 Mass Actions in DC, fill out the easy-to-use form at: http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#endo (if this link does not take you directly to the form, please scroll down)
To find TRANSPORTATION FROM YOUR AREA, go to: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18contacts.html
If you plan to ORGANIZE TRANSPORTATION from your area to be in DC January 18-19, fill out the form at: http://internationalanswer.org/campaigns/j18/j18endorse.html#transp (if this link does not take you directly to the form, please scroll down)
To download FLYERS & OTHER ORGANIZING MATERIALS, go to: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/resources/
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